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By Rex Moore (TMF Orangeblood)
October 11, 2002

If you're a news junkie like most of us here at Fool HQ, you've no doubt seen some very strange headlines before. The kind you read once, blink twice, and then read several more times... just to make sure. We've collected a few of these headlines and thought we'd share some very recent ones with you, along with some all-time classics. Enjoy!

Top 5 Recent Strange Headlines (with comments)

5. Stocks Stumble, Greenspan Lies Ahead
    (If Greenspan lies, stocks should stumble.)

4. Goodyear to Stop Labeling 10% of its Workers as Worst
    (Instead, it will call them "resource-draining buffoons.")

3. Iraq Says Will Repel Any Attack With Knives, Stones
    (This pretty much disproves the "weapons of mass destruction" theory.)

2. Doctors Grow Pig Teeth in Rat Intestines
    (We'll let you insert your own joke here.)

1. Carter Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Swipe at Bush
    (If this is the main criterion, Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle must have been first runner-up.)

Top 5 Classic Headlines (no comments needed)

5. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says

4. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge

3. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

2. Include your Children When Baking Cookies

1. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

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